VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

bombersflyup Yours, Mine and Ours is a dull family comedy, annoying as much as it is comedic. Ball and Fonda are a little too old for these roles and there is little romance. Having so many kids running round, you would think they would use the kids to comedic effect and give them some of the spotlight, but they don't. It is more of a chore for them and for the viewer as well. The boys liquoring up Helen at the dinner table was amusing, but it falls well short on laughs. What surprised me most though, is the lack of endearment in the film when you have a family of twenty. It's like his kids are an army regiment, lifeless and sad. I have no idea why I chose to watch this, it was like "The Brady Bunch."

Hollywood_Yoda Long before the Duggar family tried breaking the world record for number of births to a single mother (which is 69), there was this film, itself based on a true story of exponential proportions.Henry Fonda stars as Frank Beardsley, a widowed Navy officer with ten children and Lucille Ball as Helen North-Beardsley with her own eight children. That was eighteen children, a lot back in the 1960s when this film was released. To add to that, they had a child together, making it nineteen.This is a good clean, family friendly film that adults and children alike will be able to enjoy. It's a shame that films like this aren't made in today's time.

garyldibert Your Mine and Ours was released on April 24, 1968 in the United States. Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson. Before its release, it had three other working titles: The Beardsley Story, Full House, and His, Hers, and Theirs. It was based loosely on the story of Frank and Helen Beardsley, although Desilu Productions bought the rights to the story long before Helen's autobiographical book Who Gets the Drumstick? was released to bookstores. Screenwriters Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll wrote several I Love Lucy-style stunts that in most cases had no basis in the actual lives of the Beardsley family, before Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman took over primary writing duties. The film was commercially successful, and even the Beardsleys themselves appreciated it. This film was remade in 2005 with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo as Frank and Helen Beardsley.Summary: Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball take turns providing voice-over narration throughout—and in at least one scene, Van Johnson talks directly to the camera (a technique known as breaking the fourth wall), as does Fonda. Henry Fonda's character, Frank Beardsley, is a Roman Catholic Navy warrant officer, recently detached from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and assigned as project officer for the Fresnel lens glide-slope indicator, or "meatball," that would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers. Lucille Ball's character, Helen North, is a Roman Catholic nurse working in the dispensary at the California naval base to which Frank is assigned. Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the Naval base (presumably Alameda Naval Air Station, though it is never identified) and then when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary, where Helen informs him that the young lady is simply growing up in a too-crowded house that lacks a mother's guidance. They immediately hit it off and go on a date, all the while shying away from admitting their respective secrets: Frank has ten children and Helen has eight, from previous marriages that ended in their spouses' deaths. When each finally learns the other's secret, they initially resist their mutual attraction. However, Chief Warrant Officer Darrell Harrison (Van Johnson) is determined to bring them together. To that end, he "fixes up" each of them with a blind date that is sure to be incompatible. Helen's date is an obstetrician (Sidney Miller) who stands a good head shorter than she does; this prompts Helen to observe in voice-over, "Darrell had a malicious sense of humor." Frank's date is a "hip" girl (Louise Troy) who is not only young enough to be one of his daughters, but also is far too forward for his taste. As the final touch, Harrison makes sure that both dates take place in the same Japanese restaurant. As Harrison fully expects, Frank and Helen end up leaving the restaurant together in his car, with Frank's date sitting uncomfortably between the two as they carry on about their children.Questions: Did Frank and Helen date after meeting at a restaurant? What do three of Franks do to Helen? What happens to Helen? Does Frank believe his children? Do the children fight the change? What does the children do after the hear the major announcement? What's going on between Philip North and his teacher? What kind of discussion does Frank and Helen have? Is it about the children? My thoughts: This movie was a waste of time and it was bad. Talent used in this movie never was there so I give this movie 1 weasel

movie-viking Saw this as a kid in the 60's...Viewed it now at almost Lucille Ball's age, it's STILL a great film. Host your own 60's revival by showing them this film---which influenced the Brady Bunch TV show! By this time,Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda had either teen or 20's aged children. Their real life parenting experience---shows!The kids' smart aleck 60's characters are a bit dated---but Fonda and Ball could have acted their parts - yesterday...The best scene of all is near the movie's end--in the now merged household.Fonda must advise a teen daughter on true love -- versus sex only...as he walks his pregnant wife to the car..saying..."It isn't going to bed with a man that proves that you love him it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world that counts. I suppose having 19 kids is carrying it a bit too far, but if we had it to do all over again --who would we skip, you?"